Brewer's: Onion Pennies

Roman coins dug up at Silchester; so called from one Onion, a giant, who, the country people say, inhabited the buried city. Silchester used to be called by the British Ard-Oncon- i.e. Ardal Onion (the region of Einion or Onion).

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